Gabriel is reading it for his honors English class next year and he kept wanting to talk to me about it but then not wanting to spoil it. He is away at camp until the end of the week and I promised I would read it while he was away so he could talk all he wanted about it.

He is the only person that is always genuinely interested in what I am reading on a day to day basis so I am on a mission to not let him down about reading this book (I also read two of his other books already since he has been gone)

The movie sucked compared to the book. I had such high hopes for the movie too. But really, think about it as you read the book. Nothing really happens! It's a great book, but you know it's going to make a shitty movie.

I really liked that film, I loved the way DeLillo's dialogue sounds out loud.

Right now I'm reading The Master and Margarita and The Wind-up Bird Chronicles.

The movie sucked compared to the book. I had such high hopes for the movie too. But really, think about it as you read the book. Nothing really happens! It's a great book, but you know it's going to make a shitty movie.

I really liked that film, I loved the way DeLillo's dialogue sounds out loud.

Right now I'm reading The Master and Margarita and The Wind-up Bird Chronicles.

When I saw Synecdoche, NY, the dialogue reminded me of DeLillo, especially when they're all in the car at the beginning. In fact, most of the movie felt like one of his novels. Charlie Kaufman might be able to make a DeLillo movie.

Christina Lindberg was unbelievably beautiful back in the day. But then I'd feel bad because she always seemed so exploited in those movies. (I say "back in the day," but I only became familiar with her work like five years ago.)

Speaking of exploitation, one of my favorite things is my blu-ray of 42nd St. Forever, which is over three hours of nothing but grindhouse trailers like those.

When I saw Synecdoche, NY, the dialogue reminded me of DeLillo, especially when they're all in the car at the beginning. In fact, most of the movie felt like one of his novels. Charlie Kaufman might be able to make a DeLillo movie.

these are key points that I wanted to share that could be seen to speak almost directly to your comment FG, so I wanted to highlight them (also in case you were not actually interested in reading the entire article):

XM: the irony being that a movie like Thriller is all about confronting, rather than gratifying, male desire, particularly through the theme of the vengeful woman.

CL: exactly. But you know, at that time they thought I was a victim. It’s so funny because today it’s so different with Kill Bill and so on; there is now a new generation of strong women who are clearly modelled on 1970s sexploitation films such as mine. And the funny thing is that I have always felt very strong when I was performing in these films. People would often ask me, ‘Don’t you feel like a victim?’ no, I took care of myself; I’ve always taken care of myself and I felt respected. And in a way a film like Thriller is all about what happens when a woman is not respected in that way.

later in the interview:
XM: one final question. Many porn actresses feel a lot of social pressure to renounce their former roles in the sex industry, most famously Linda Lovelace.
CL: yes.
XM: are you ashamed of your porno past or do you feel that films like Thriller did make a legitimate contribution to cinema culture?
CL: not ashamed at all. As you say Thriller did make an impact, and in a very good way. I hope that I have given people something positive to consider in my films. Certainly, I never sought to portray women as victims or weak in any of my films. Instead they are a warning to men who do not realize the potential power women have.

Nice. Well, there it is. Good for her. I often wonder, though, even if they themselves didn't feel exploited doing it, if the damage is still done by the public feeling that she must have been, and how that perception impacts society at large. Then again, some people don't understand fiction or fantasy. But two screen acts performed by different actors that appear pretty much the same to the viewer can be polar-opposite experiences for the actors due either to their attitudes or the actual circumstances on set (see: Lovelace vs most adult stars). Anyway, enough about that; thanks for sharing.

I'm starting Richard Thomas's Staring Into the Abyss. I've read a lot of these stories before, but it's always good to have them collected.

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